The Sacred Feminine
Blog by Valerie In 2016 I danced a healing ceremony on Tiwa country in view of their Place of Emergence (now the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, U.S., image from here.) It was the height of summer when…
Category Decolonising
Two-Eyed Seeing: Gift & Privilege
Blog by Valerie The word gift has a very interesting etymology. I remember being surprised as a child to learn that Gift meant ‘poison’ in German. Turns out it means ‘poison’ in modern Dutch, Danish and Swedish too. The story…
Facts in Right Relationship
Blog by Lukas Across the globe an increasingly dominant worldview sees reality as ultimately physical. There are various expressions of this worldview in Western philosophy, including: logical positivism, empiricism, physicalism, scientism, naturalism and causal closure. I would sum them up as follows: the only true reality…
Alienation & Judgment
Blog by Valerie I was perhaps one of Earth’s most alienated of beings, and by that I mean that I did not sense belonging here. My cultural context was such that I had no sense of relationship with my earthly…
Healing Whiteness Trauma
Blog by Valerie “The first step in liquidating a people…is to erase its memory…Before long a nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.”—Milan Kundera Whether you are…
Thanks-Giving at Solstice
Blog by Valerie A few months ago somewhere in the outback around Broken Hill, I experienced a spiritual lightning strike inside. Something in me died, an old dream (maybe it was always a lie), and its energy has been emerging…
My Jewish experience
Blog by Valerie A few weeks ago I was watching a couple of rabbis and their wives driving around Australia looking for Jewish people. They said throughout history Jews have been hunted down by persecutors, so now they’re hunting down…
Earthly nourishment
Blog by Valerie All Law-breaking comes from that first evil thought, “I am greater-than,” that original sin of placing yourself above the land or above other people. Tyson Yunkaporta The above quote is the definition of “unsustainable” to me. I…
The power of denial
Denial literally means “saying no” to something, but we tend to think of it in a negative way. We say things like, “He’s in denial” when someone’s not accepting a truth. Here’s a concerning example of Reagan talking about Native…
Boundaries & integrity
Blog by Valerie There’s a lot of rhetoric about boundaries, and setting healthy boundaries, and crossing boundaries, but in essence, we’re talking about integrity, or wholeness. From google, the etymology of integrity is: When we are in integrity, we are…